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America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory.

Jerry Brown

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Jerry Brown
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 7
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Governor Of California
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San Francisco County
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Edmund Gerald Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.
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Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.
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Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
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Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.
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The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
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Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.
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We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.
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At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.
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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
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There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
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The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].
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Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.
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Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.
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Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.
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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
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